The Delta Music
Institute entertainment industry program at Delta State University will host the award-winning Thacker Mountain
Radio Show Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. in DMI’s Studio A on the campus of Delta State.
This marks the…

Delta State University’s award-winning race relations conference — Winning the Race —
returns for its second year March 30-31. This year’s conference is titled
“Winning the Race: Through Hearts & Minds. A…

Recently, Delta State University’s unique DEBTS
program (Debt Education for Business Transformation and Sustainability)
attended a roundtable discussion hosted by the Delta Regional Authority and
U.S. Department of…

Jackson State University’s Third Annual CyberLearning Summit — a ground-breaking conference
of faculty, staff and visitors that explores the emerging marriage of teaching
and technology — will be held Feb…

Jackson State University President Dr. Carolyn W. Meyers today announced that Athletic
Director Dr. Vivian Fuller has accepted the post of associate vice provost for
Student Affairs. “We are delighted...

Mississippi State officials, along with members of the university's student chapter
of the Society of American Foresters and the Campus Tree Advisory Committee,
gathered today [Feb. 13] in the Junction to celebrate the land-grant
institution's Tree Campus USA designation by the Arbor Day Foundation.

Mississippi State University honored a longtime philanthropist today [Feb. 12] whose work as
president and chairman of the Meridian-based Riley Foundation has greatly impacted
education and opportunity in the region.

Just in time for
American Heart Month, the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Mississippi University for Women will
raise the community’s awareness by hosting its annual health fair Wednesday,
Feb. 18.

The Career Services
Center in collaboration with the Office of Alumni Affairs will launch a new
social media network, Wynbi, on Tuesday, February 17th, for students and alumni
to connect, explore careers and stay engaged with the university.

Torrential beer showers
at Swayze Field are considered a tradition by many Ole Miss students; however, those who wish to continue consuming or
throwing alcohol in the right field student section must now wear wristbands
that verify they are of the legal drinking age.

CCC wraps up a successful 2015 SkillsUSA Week
It’s been a week of fun, recognition, and most importantly giving back for Coahoma Community College Career and
Technical Education students as they cap off their 2015 SkillsUSA Week.

CCC to host annual Career Expo Feb. 26Coahoma Community College is gearing
up to host more than 1,000 local high school students and community members
during its annual Career Expo Thursday, Feb 26.

L.P. Bassett (center) of
Philadelphia is the recipient of the inaugural Thomas W. Carson Award at East Central Community College in
Decatur. This award was established to honor a retired band director who has
served the Ea...

Dr. Janae Ferguson Hagan
of Saltillo has been selected as the 2015 William Winter Scholar for Itawamba Community College. She will
represent ICC at the award-winning 26th annual Natchez Literary and Cinema
Celebration, Feb. 26-28. The country’s most prominent writers, scholars and
filmmakers will be featured at this year’s celebration, “Bigger Than Life:
Extraordinary Mississippians.”

Representatives from the
state’s 15 Community/Junior Colleges gathered for a special luncheon honoring
legislators in Jackson. The event, hosted by the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges was an
opportunity to thank legislators for supporting the two-year college system.

The Reflections Team at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s
Perkinston Campus will host the Walters Family 5K race on Saturday, April 18,
to help raise funds to assist with current and future medical bills for Brooks
Walters.

High School band
students from up and down the I-55 corridor and beyond were on the Senatobia
campus of Northwest Mississippi
Community College for the annual I-55 Band Clinic on Feb. 6 and 7.
Northwest’s Division of Fine Arts has…

The 2015 Belhaven Career Fair on February 26
draws top employers from the Jackson area and statewide. Students will be able
to talk with employers and interview for permanent, part-time and internship
...

William Carey University students, employees and their families are benefiting from the
services of an on-campus osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) clinic
operated by faculty members from the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

A stereotypical New
Year’s resolution is becoming a reality at the William Carey University Tradition campus in Biloxi as a new
fitness and wellness program has been established to benefit campus employees
and students.

The state of
Mississippi’s newest leader of higher education will have his work cut out for
him, but thanks to swift action by the Institutes of Higher Learning’s board of
trustees, that work is set to begin sooner rather than later.

When it was announced
Jan. 12 that Hank Bounds would be
stepping down as commissioner of Mississippi's Institutions of Higher Learning
(IHL) board, a sinking feeling settled over the campus of Mississippi
University for Women.

Jackson State University’sDr. Mukesh Kumar has
outlined a plan for Jackson revitalization that now will go to local residents
and communities for fine-tuning. Speaking Thursday at the Greater Jackson...

Starkville
saw significantly more thefts, robberies, assaults and burglaries in 2014 than
in 2013, and Starkville Police Chief Frank Nichols attributes this in
part to Starkville’s population increase during MSU’s athletic success.

In celebration of Black
History Month, the MVSU Department
of English and Foreign Languages presents The Zelma T. Howard Lecture featuring
Dr. Toru Kiuchi in the Science and
Technology Center Auditorium on February 19, 2015 at 9:25 a.m. Dr. Kiuchi will
give a lecture on “Richard Wright in Greenwood, Mississippi.”

The Friends of the University of Mississippi Museum
invites everyone to an evening of food, wine and revelry at a pre-installation
celebration in the museum’s Mary Buie wing for the Buie Bacchanalia on
Feb. 20

Dr. Bill Holcomb, associate professor and director of the Athletic Training
Program at The University of Southern
Mississippi’s School of Human Performance and Recreation has been selected
to receive a 2015 Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award from the National
Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA)

Every year, incoming
freshmen and transfer students enter The University
of Southern Mississippi with many thoughts and feelings. Some enter the
golden doors of Bennett Auditorium for orientation feeling excited, nervous,
overwhelmed but more importantly, the love of the Golden Eagle family.

A record number of
Americans are studying abroad. Educators say that's good, as it promotes better
cross-cultural understanding. But many in the field worry the influx of
technology and social media may be hampering students' ability to fully immerse
themselves abroad.

Jackson State University has named longtime broadcaster and alum Robert “Rob Jay” Jeuitt
as interim executive director of University Communications, replacing Eric
Stringfellow. Jeuitt serves as general manager of television…

Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum today [Jan. 28] signed a memorandum of
understanding agreement with Université Internationale de Rabat for the
implementation of a School of Automotive Engineering at the UIR campus in
Rabat, Morocco, jointly delivered by the two institutions.

Oktibbeha County School
Conservator Margie Pulley rescinded a reverse referendum to issue bonds to help
build a new Starkville and Oktibbeha County 6-7 grade middle school for the
soon-to-be consolidated districts on Monday.

About 30 high school
juniors and seniors were on Mississippi
University for Women’s campus today to learn about the College of Nursing
and Speech-Language Pathology and participate in interactive sessions with
nursing faculty and students.

Mississippi Valley State University will host its Martin Luther King, Jr./Black
History Convocation on Thursday, February 12. The event will begin
at 11:00 a.m. in H.G. Carpenter Auditorium and will feature Dr. Leonard L.
Haynes III from the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Haynes will give the
convocation address.

The president of Mississippi Valley State University
challenged members of the Mississippi State and Starkville community to choose
wisely between "chaos and community" in their daily lives and
actions.

After four months of
battling lymphoma, University of
Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones’s condition appears to be improving. His
most recent positron emission tomography, or PET, scan shows no evidence of
cancerous activity.

The University of Southern Mississippi has partnered with the Republic
of Panama in an initiative known as Panama Bilingue [Bilingual Panama], a
project implemented by the president of Panama to ensure his citizens are
bilingual in Spanish and English.

With
antibiotic-resistant Staph infection becoming more prevalent – especially in
the southeastern U.S. -- researchers at The University of Southern Mississippi and Forrest General Hospital
embarked on a campaign to reduce the morbidity and mortality in those affected
by Staph infections.

The University of Southern Mississippi has an excellent overall crime
rating, according to College Factual. The overall crime rating is based on
reported crime on campus and in surrounding areas. Colleges with low amounts of
reported crime are valued as being safer.

Co-Lin has received a $251,310
grant from the Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation to fund
the Wolfpack Wellness Initiative Part 2 on the college’s Wesson Campus through
the Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation College and University
Health and Wellness Initiative

The chocolate sculpture
pictured above, designed and crafted by East
Central Community College culinary arts technology students, was
prominently displayed during the annual MACJC Legislative Appreciation Luncheon
held Jan...

East Central Community College first aid instructor Scott Hill (far right) teaches CPR
techniques to students (from left) Matt Sykes of Columbus, Tyler Armistad of
Caledonia and Matt Ferguson of Lake. Not pictured is Donna...

Caledonia High School
outperformed eight other area high schools to claim first place overall at East Mississippi Community College’s
annual Scholars’ Olympiad. The academic and career-technical testing
competition was held Jan. 30 at EMCC’s Golden Triangle campus.

There was no shortage of
faculty, staff, students, friends, and family members present to wish the
honoree well during the dedication ceremony for the Joe A. Adams Student Center
held on the Ridgeland Campus of Holmes
Community College Feb. 6.

Dr. Laura Pannell of New
Albany, gerontologist and lead eInstructor for psychology, educational
psychology and social work at Itawamba
Community College, contributed four meditations to the new book, “Seasons
of Caring: Meditations for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers.”

MDCC’s Career-Technical
Education Department recently hosted national grant partners on the Moorhead
campus. Mississippi Delta Community College is in its third year of funding as
a recipient of a Department of Labor grant totaling $886,965.

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College hosted a Community Town Hall Meeting with
Governor Phil Bryant at its Jackson County Campus on Monday, February 2,
in support of the Mississippi Girls Health Initiative and Healthy Teens for a
Better Mississippi.

Dr. Gary Lee Spears,
president of Northwest Mississippi
Community College recently welcomed Terri Moore, human resources manager of
ThyssenKrupp Elevator Manufacturing, to the Northwest Foundation office. Moore
brought the news that ThyssenKrupp will be awarding a $1,000 scholarship for
the…

Northwest Mississippi Community College will hold its second annual “Author Rodeo
Roundup” on Saturday, March 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the R.C. Pugh Library on the
Senatobia campus. Maggie Moran, director of Learning Resources, is rounding up local…

The Higher Education
Appreciation Day, Working for Academic Excellence (HEADWAE) will honor Dr.
Angela Gaddis, Chair and Associate Professor of Social Work, for her
contributions in promoting academic ...

J.B. Bernstein,
legendary sports agent, marketing pioneer and inspiration for the Disney movie
Million Dollar Arm, will be the featured speaker during the 2015 spring forum
sponsored by the Millsaps College
Else School of Management.

Millsaps College Receives $265,000 Grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable
Trust to support Scientific Research in Partnership with Jackson Public Schools
and the University of Mississippi Medical Center

Millsaps College is proud to announce the return of its Semester Abroad Program in
Yucatán, which will be offered in the Fall Semester of 2015. Using your regular
tuition, room and board, you will be able to live and study abroad for the
entire fall semester in Mexico. In fact, the program will cost the same as a
semester on campus, plus only an additional $1000 activity fee

"Nearly 200 alumni,
students, faculty, staff, and community members from both Brown and Tougaloo College gathered at Brown Nov.
7-8, 2014, for a weekend of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
Brown-Tougaloo Partnership."

The dean of Mississippi State University's
Shackouls Honors College is traveling to England to examine possible
connections between MSU's first Rhodes Scholar and the title character of
"The Great Gatsby."

Dr. Deborah Ford, Professor of English, received a 2014 summer research
grant from Mississippi Valley State
University to work in the archives of the Dodd Center at the U of
Connecticut on the papers of Allen Polite, an expatriate African American poet.

For decades, Dr. Joe Paul, Vice President for Student
Affairs at The University of Southern
Mississippi, has inspired numerous student leaders to live by his mantra of
encouragement to leave the institution “better than they found it.”

“The way I consume
media, the typical marketer or journalist has about 12 seconds to get my
attention and make me think ‘this is something I need to read,’” said
Whittington. “For Generation Z, which includes people born after 1994, that
person has 8 seconds. So you see a drastic decrease in the amount of time and
attention people will give traditional marketing and communication messages.”